כָּנַסkânaç
gather, collect
Pronunciation: kaw-nas' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3664
Meanings
Qal: gather (Ecclesiastes 2:8; Esther 4:16; 1 Chronicles 22:2)
Pi`el: and I will gather you together (Ezekiel 22:21; Ezekiel 22:20; Ezekiel 22:19)
Hithpa`el: and the covering is (too) narrow when one gathers oneself together (Isaiah 28:20)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 22:2 So David gave orders to call together the foreigners living in Israel, and he assigned them the task of preparing finished stone for building the Temple of God.
- Nehemiah 12:44 On that day men were appointed to be in charge of the storerooms for the offerings, the first part of the harvest, and the tithes. They were responsible to collect from the fields outside the towns the portions required by the Law for the priests and Levites. For all the people of Judah took joy in the priests and Levites and their work.
- Esther 4:16 “Go and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same. And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. If I must die, I must die.”
- Psalms 33:7 He assigned the sea its boundaries and locked the oceans in vast reservoirs.
- Psalms 147:2 The Lord is rebuilding Jerusalem and bringing the exiles back to Israel.
- Ecclesiastes 2:8 I collected great sums of silver and gold, the treasure of many kings and provinces. I hired wonderful singers, both men and women, and had many beautiful concubines. I had everything a man could desire!
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).